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Aaron Colby

Aaron Colby

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Labor Law

13263 Ventura Blvd suite 203, Studio City, CA 91604, USA

Area of Practice: Employment Law Aaron Colby is a California employment lawyer who knows how to resolve disputes. After 15 years representing companies, he started Colby Law Firm to represent employees. Aaron’s perspective and experience from being “on the other side” gives him an edge. Aaron brings his practical, focused, and relentless approach to helping employees protect their rights. Aaron graduated University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2003 and returned to Los Angeles to pursue a law degree at Southwestern Law School. After clerking for a judge and graduating in the top of his class in 2006, Aaron entered “BigLaw” and began representing companies. Aaron became one of the youngest equity partners at the national law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he represented businesses of all sizes across all industries in single-plaintiff and class action employment litigation. He fought and settled all types of employment claims (harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, unpaid wages) in all contexts.

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Estate Planning Law

1902 Wright Place, 2nd Floor, Carlsbad, CA 92008

Raised in a multicultural setting, Aisha Williams, our principal attorney, experienced the impact of estate battles early on. This experience propelled her from an in-house role at a Fortune-100 company towards a heart-led career in California estate planning. Aisha offers Californians comprehensive legal services, aiming to protect family bonds through careful estate planning. A San Diego native, Aisha balanced work and studies until her graduation from San Diego State University. She graduated with a B.A. in International Business, a Spanish emphasis, a Portuguese minor, and a Distinction in Major. Driven to create change, Aisha returned to education at the University of San Diego School of Law. While studying under scholarship and working full time, she earned her law degree in 2012. Today, Aisha juggles being a devoted mother and wife, a sports enthusiast, and a licensed member of the State Bar of California.

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Alan Barbanel

Civil Litigation

1925 CENTURY PARK E, SUITE: 350, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Mr. Barbanel has a practice focusing on insurance coverage and bad faith on behalf of commercial insurers and reinsurers. He has specialized in insurance coverage for the past thirty-two (32) years. Mr. Barbanel?s clients include several foreign and domestic excess and surplus lines insurers and reinsurers for which he handles a wide variety of complex third-party and first-party coverage disputes arising out of professional liability, employment practices liability, directors and officers? liability, commercial general liability, specialty liability, commercial property, homeowners?, and a variety of specialty policies including contingent liability and product recall policies. Mr. Barbanel also has expertise in a wide variety of policy formation issues and insurance fraud. In addition, over the past fifteen (15) years Mr. Barbanel has acted as a claim administrator for a variety professional liability programs for the Lloyd?s, London insurance market. This includes programs for lawyers, insurance agents and brokers, real estate and mortgage brokers, architects and engineers, and miscellaneous professions. In the capacity of a claim administrator Mr. Barbanel has handled in excess of 1,300 professional liability claims in most states in the United States. He earned his B.S. from Northeastern University before attending the University of San Diego, where he earned his J.D.

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